Connecting the dots of life and business

I’ve been very reluctant to join Facebook, my sister hailed its benefits (she’s in college) and Steven has been urging me to make the switch from MySpace… so Saturday I finally did it. All recent signs have pointed to Facebook, Paul called it the new LinkedIn, Jim likes that FB is free and [...]

I wanted to post my interview with Guy Kawasaki today, but that can wait. Andy Swan, a fellow web entrepreneur from Louisville was interviewed today on the always entertaining (and informative) Wallstrip. Andy and Landon are a team of brothers who created mytrade.com and as Rob said, they’re the tallest guys in [...]

No post today, as I just interviewed Guy Kawasaki in Louisville! He was on my list to interview during my Bay Area visit next week and he was kind enough to sit down and chat before he went to the airport. I’ll cut up the video and post it today or tomorrow.

Yesterday, I was in a local business and saw this old school calendar on the desk. Actually, they had one on each desk. None of them had a sign of use in 2007. I immediately made the connection of how long it takes to change human behavior patterns. We didn’t just [...]

I mentioned in this site’s first post I’m not new to blogging (just going hard again on a personal blog). My business partner is a top 3,000 blogger and I’ve started two group blogs (More Than Derby- Louisville, Kentucky’s first city blog and co-founded Outside the Valley a web 2.0 review blog). But [...]

Do students raise their hands like the pic at left when a teacher asks the class a question? Not the classes I attended. After reading Aleksei Miheev’s post about the skewed participation percentages in web communities, I realized it’s very similar to the percentage of classroom volunteers. Here are a few snippets of his [...]